Galangal
Galangal appears in 256 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Galangal appears in 256 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 256
- catalogued products
- #1,667
- usage rank of 247,206
- 105
- named brands represented
- 53%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
Galangal sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,667 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,667
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 256 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Averaged label depth puts Galangal in the lower half of the list (53% of list length, mean slot 13.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Galangal spans 105 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with A taste of thai, green curry paste; A taste of thai, red curry paste; Aroy-D, Green Curry Soup, Medium when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
105 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 148 of 237 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Galangal
Across the 256 products on this site that list Galangal, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Galangal products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 12 | 4.7% | 4.5% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Galangal
Products Containing Galangal
16 busy labels from the 256 indexed products that list Galangal:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Colours E129”)
Top-decile company for Galangal: 256 listings averaging 99.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Colours E129 · Leaf · Oat Flakes.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Galangal page
256 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Galangal are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Galangal and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Galangal with a peer such as “Colours E129” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Galangal — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Galangal? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Galangal, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,667 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Galangal? ▼
Galangal ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,667 of 247,206), appearing in 256 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Galangal so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Galangal appears in 256 products (#1,667 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Galangal). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.